On October 13, 2012, the owner of a 2008 Toyota RAV contacted the Garden Grove Police Department to report that his vehicle had been stolen. Garden Grove Police verified the theft and entered the Toyota’s information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle. A short

On February 18, 2012, officers from the Costa Mesa Police Department  began to pick up the silent LoJack signal from a 1999 Toyota Corolla reported stolen 19 minutes earlier to the Westminster Police Department. Following the directional signal on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer installed in their patrol vehicles, the officers tracked the signal to